fortune('parse')

But if you have a vector of file names you can create a blank list and
read.table each file into a list. I generally find that if I'm reading a
bunch of files in at the same time they are probably related and I will end
up coming back and putting them all in to a list anyways.


file.names <- c('name 1', 'name 2', 'name 3')

my.list <- list()

for (i in file.names) {
 temp <- read.table(paste(i, '.txt', sep = ''))
# assign temp to i if desired
 assign(i, temp)
 # or put it in the list
 my.list[[i]] <- temp
}




On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3/2/10, carol white <wht_crl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  How to turn a character string into an unevaluated R object? I want to
> load some
> >
> I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for:
> > as.name("iris")
> iris
> > parse(text="iris")
> expression(iris)
> attr(,"srcfile")
> <text>
> > head(eval(as.name("iris")))
>  Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
> > head(eval(parse(text="iris")))
>  Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
>
> Liviu
>
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